Wait till Your Mother Gets Home!
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Wait till Your Mother Gets Home! | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Written by | David Eyre Bill Persky |
Directed by | Bill Persky |
Starring | Paul Michael Glaser Dee Wallace Tamar Howard Robert Jayne Joseph Lawrence |
Music by | Ken Harrison |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producers | Blue André Vanessa Greene Alice Gwyn Pardo |
Producer | Albert J. Salzer |
Cinematography | Frank Stanley |
Editor | Gerald Shepard |
Running time | 97 min. (approx.) |
Production companies | NBC Blue Greene Productions |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | January 17, 1983 |
Wait till Your Mother Gets Home! is a 1983 American made-for-television comedy film based on a true story about role reversal and support, starring Paul Michael Glaser and Dee Wallace. The film deals with the popular question of whether or not men and women can successfully take on the other's traditional roles in society, i.e. breadwinner vs. caretaker.
Plot
Robert "Bob" Peters Sr. (Paul Michael Glaser) works as a High School football coach, and physical education teacher to support his family financially while his wife Patricia "Pat" Peters (Dee Wallace) fulfills her full-time duties as a stay-at-home mom. Each day, Pat takes care of their three lovely but lively children by the names of Jennifer (Tamar Howard), Robert Jr. (Robert Jayne), and Christopher (Joseph Lawrence), but still manages to tend to husband Bob's actual needs, and wants, as soon as he comes home from work every day. Now without any gain of support, Pat now has constantly growing frustrations, also is now completely stressed out, and without rest, with the status questioning now in her life are not being helped by her husband Bob finally winning the election for the "Man of the Year Award".
On the night that her husband receives his award, high school principal Herman Ohme (
Bob takes on his completely "Mister Mom" role or household diva, Bob sets out for the task at hand with vigor, and enthusiasm, as well as a substantial dose of male chauvinism, as he sees it all as the perfect opportunity to prove to his wife just how the household should be run. He keeps ahead of everything for a few days but eventually finds himself tiring easily and finding the hours of the day vanishing before he achieves half of his household and family care duties. Bob suddenly finds himself polishing tables doing dishes, wiping counters, doing the grocery shopping, and making beds while discovering that her job is not as easy as he thought, now playing nurse to his children. Bob prepares the daily
Summer has finally passed, and it's now Bob's birthday. Pat comes home from work, ready to take Bob out to celebrate when Christopher, after smudging mud on Bob's freshly cleaned window, falls onto Bob's clean white pants as he opens the glass doors. Having enough of household work, Bob loses his temper, and has a fight with Pat, then storms out of the house and disappears. After Pat makes several calls to his friends, she finally receives a call from their local TV station to turn it on. There on the local television show, Bob makes a public apology live on the air and comments about how hard it is to be a homemaker. After Bob leaves the station, he marches down his street with the high school marching band behind him all in salute of Pat, his wife. Later on that day, Bob returns home, apologizes to Pat and shows her his nice clean shirt.
Cast and crew
Actor | Role |
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Paul Michael Glaser | Coach Robert "Bob" Peters Sr. |
Dee Wallace | Patricia "Pat" Peters |
Joey Lawrence | Christopher Peters |